set your dvrs so you never miss an episode of "the five." we will be back here at 9:00 eastern. "hannity" is next. >> sean: thank you to all my friends at "the five." number one again in their time slot. welcome to "hannity." ann coulter will not be speaking at uc berkeley after sponsorsir pull out of the event due to "security concerns." this was scheduled to happen tomorrow. c she will be here in just a minute to respond.ap newt gingrich, maria bartiromo, juan williams, and harvey levini will all join us later tonighty but first, the alt radical left, destroy trump media plan to silence conservative voices, this has got to be stopped once and for all. i am saying tonight it is time to stand up and face this threat head-on.

that is tonight's very important opening monologue. we are at a turning point. a huge turning point when it comes tooi freedom of speech in the united states of america. i, for one, refuse to sit back and let conservatives be silenced by liberal fascists. uc berkeley has succeeded for now and silencing another conservative. ann coulter was supposed to give a speech on the campus tomorrow. simple, harmless, right? the home of free speech, berkeley. not to these left-wing anti-free-speech fascists. o the alt radical left loves toit claim they are so tolerant and inclusive. that is just a big mess andef live. maybe the biggest in america right now. in fact, the first amendment means nothing to these people. it's just a tack on a document that they care nothing about. shut down every single

conservative voice in america by any means necessary. it's not serious. this is just one example in what we have been showing you this week, liberal fascists are carrying out a well orchestrated funded smear campaign to try to take down president trump and anybody and everybody that supports him and his policies. as i have explained, i have alsm become the target of these slanderous attacks and in my opinion, what happened last friday -- this was designed to be a killy shot. to ruin my career and shut me down, once and for all. literally, i think that the crosshairs at my head and heart. they wanted to destroy me and ruin my career and get me off the air once and for all. it's very, very importantst for you to understand what is really going on here and it is so much bigger than me or anyone person. i want to use my example to expose what is really happening. on friday, just two days after bill o'reilly parted ways with

the fox news channel, an individual with serious and glaring credibility issues fabricated completely untrue ridiculous claims about me going back to 2003, 2004, or 2005. they quickly recanted. instead of doing their job and fact-checking the accusations by this individual, easily proven to be false, liberalal fascists journalists, lazy as they are, saw an opportunity. let's get hannity next. these are just two of the headlines of the many that were used to try to take me down. nbc news, "sean hannity denies right-wing blogger's sex harassment claim." no one mentioned it was way back in the early 2000s. "is hannity next to fall?" tried to pressure her into hotel room sex. she didn't even say that, just as a sidebar issue. do these represent the truth?

none of these outlets have updated their headlines to correct the story and tell theio viewers or their readers the truth. that this is a highly questionable individual who recanted these completely false claims. i have hired a killer team of lawyers and investigators. we are laying out a war strategy that will hold every media outlet that lies and smears meet responsible. my lawyers are saying that these media outlets have a basic fundamental obligation to do rudimentary fact-checkingat instead of just taking the word of one individual, in my case, they went for the cheap headline without even doing a simple google search which would have shown that this has gone on with this woman -- false charges -- for years. is this reckless disregard for the truth? do these media outlets have a responsibility to do any fact-checking?

in the end, i may end up suing some of these outlets because at this point, enough is enough. these attempts to destroy and silence conservative voices -- they are trying to make your favorite news show hosts go away. they want to get rid of the fox news channel. the one network in the country that actually gives president trump a fair shake. they want to destroy everybody in talk radio.an at this point, if we don't fight back and i don't speak up, it will only get worse and worse and others will fall victim to the same liberal media fascists. i've told you since 2007 and 2008, journalism in america is dead. it has been that way for a long time. stop pretending -- it's time ton stop pretending. the facts show, they are agenda driven. they are lazy, biased.op they have a diabolical agenda. they seem incapable amount of telling the truth. joining us now, ann coulter.

good to see you. you did not cancel, i want our audience to be very clear about this. d i give you a lot of credit. i know you are walking into the lion's den at uc berkeley. you did not cancel. tell us what happened. >> well, berkeley as you know -- they've been changing their position every 5 minutes. it's like a game of musical chairs. whenever the music stops, the answer is no, she can't speak. they ran away and gave in. and then there was nothing i could do. i think we had carried this pretty far. the final lawsuit, which is a great lawsuit, didn't request an order from a judge. in joining berkeley to provide a speaking place for me. the factual record was fabulous.

the principal of the first amendment, the cases are in legions. it's not a president trying to put limits onre who gets into te country. that's kind of something new for the country. not too new but with the first amendment, there are so many cases and unless the judge wasut howard dean, i think we are winning that case. but yeah, the request for a court order to be filed to provide a room, and a security for me -- berkeley's lawyers saw that and were backing out. all along, they'd put out a sternly worded statement rather than have me speak. starting with the requirements berkeley put on. you remember that. they would never put on a liberal speech. it had to be in the daytime, only students, they wouldn't announce the venue and they kept saying oh, this is outrageous. let's issue a statement. and i said no, just keep

agreeing. yes, yes. they said they would not be associated with anything ended up berkeley and they would not let the college republicans s bring a separate action either. so -- finding funding, what can you do? >> sean: there is a great irony here. berkeley is supposed to be the home of freedom of speech. freedom of speech and expression. do you agree with my point that there is a bigger issue here? what i call liberal fascism and this intolerance towards any conservative -- look, there is really only one network that is fair to the president in terms of television and it is fox. you are with many of my radio talk show host. i believe all of us are a target as well. do you agree that it is now an orchestrated, funded effort? y i know people are paid to take my show in the hopes thatch they can get me fired on something i

say.e do you think it's a real, clear and present danger? >> that's fantastic. i hope they are listening to my segment. >> sean: they are reading your columns. >> they are learning something, which the berkeley students will not learn. what i am frustrated with right now is i think the g.o.p. should change their motto to "next time." we will fight this next time. we will show -- we want to win now. whether it comes to judges, ruth bader ginsburg -- she getsan abt 98 votes and clarence thomas barely slips through. you have don gives away doc eight and he doesn't get the wall. that will show him how good he is. what a good humanitarian by saying what he big heart he has

for those dreamers, the illegal aliens he promised to deport. next time we willle get them. and now we have them saying well, we are going to strike a blow for the next speaker at a berkeley. no, i want to win now. can republicans ever win now? >> sean: i agree. i am as frustrated with republicans in congress. finally it looks like they have a deal on the health care bill. it took forever and the freedom carcass to get it done. i want to circle back on this, though. i believe that one of the reasons you are so hated over the years, you are iconoclastic, funny, smart, and you represent a threat to the left because you destroy them in every book and column you write. similarly, if you support donald trump in the age of trump, you are an enemy. you have to be silenced. this is not a game they are playing here. they want you destroyed. i honestly feel -- you going there and i told you thisi personally, it's a real danger h because they are so crazy.nd so, i think this is getting bigger and bigger and worse and

worse. >> oh, it definitely is. i've given college speeches for years now. bad during bush. there is nothing during obama because i think college leftists didn't know what their chant should be. they didn't have a chant for it. the obama years were the easiest things ever. and whoa, as it comes back now. what's going on with berkeley, it shows how radical the universities are generally. what you are talking out, i agree with. yes, they want to destroy and squelch conservative speech but there is a separate issue with the universities right. when you have bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, bill maher, when they are all saying get over yourselves, berkeley, we have a first amendment -- peoplg have fought and died for the right to free speech,, the college republicans are a student group.

i am not a homeless person wandering into the square. but i would be allowed to speak then too. they are really outside the mainstream. they are publicly funded. forget that this is where the free speech movement started. the amount of money they get from the state and federal government but all of the people who should have been standing up for the first amendment here, they all ran away with theirhe tails between their legs. >> sean: unbelievable. >> and by the way, i do think it's possible that today is thursday -- the berkeley campus will be the safest place on the face of the earth because so many people were flying into defend me. >> sean: oh, i give you a lot of credit. maybe we should bring every conservative out to berkeley. it's let's see how they deal withe that. i admire your courage, thank you for sharing your story. up next, on this busy news night, this busy news week as we continue tonight on "hannity"... >> we will have a simpler tax code with fewer brackets.

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fewer brackets and an irs that only serves the taxpayer. we will continue our promise to repeal and replace obamacare. there's a lot of work left to do but under the president's leadership, this unified government has made a start. >> sean: he's under pressure to push through the president's agenda and many conservatives are not happy with the job he is doing. tweeted today... a new "wall street journal" poli shows americans are very unhappy with congress as well is 72% of those polled approve of the job they are doing. i'd shake your hand but i have the worst sickness and i love you too much not to give it to you, newt gingrich. how are you? >> i am having a ball. >> sean: nobody saw the bill, it's frustrating to those people

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president. and now they have a totally different job.he i think frankly, they got caught flat-footed. i think paul ryan has said publicly -- they have made mistakes. my sense is they will probably pass the health bill in the very near future. >> sean: that means it done. let's vote on it. >> you are very excited because conservatives -- >> sean: paul ryan didn't build consensus among the various factions. that is fundamentally so flawed. >> right and they are learning from that experience. i think ryan thought he had showed them the bill. the people did not think they had the right input. nothing wakes you up quite as much like a cold shower. i think that friday was a cold shower. i will tell you this, i think they are handling the continuing resolution to keep the government open because on

friday -- >> sean: i was shocked, ryan said he would not fund obamacare subsidies. i was happy. good job checking his direction. >> yeah, they are working at it. >> sean: you have more patience than me. where's the sense of urgency? we have 50 million in poverty and on food stamps. >> right, and you have a new president. >> sean: he is doing a good job. >> i think it's very important, he had 65 senators, 100 senators briefing on korea and the white house.e. all on the same team. trump will have a trump majority in the house and senate that would be substantially bigger than the republican majority. >> sean: i don't see any

democratic support at all for this president for his first four years. do you? >> sure. on all the smaller bills, they are getting passed with bipartisan support. obamacare is a unique problem. their guy's biggest accomplishment, it's hard to ask any democrat -- but they will get huge votes from the democrats on infrastructure. tax cuts -- >> sean: are you worried about deficits, talking about $1 trillion in infrastructure? >> i'm right about the idea of economic growth. if we get to reagan level, we will mop up most of thee defici. i worry about cutting spending and i worry about deficit neutrality, not revenue neutrality. 20,000 -- the government ought to be leasing energy and minerar rights. it ought to be using an americae

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now, back to "hannity." >> sean: as we continue with former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. you just went through a number of ways we could go through so much money. you are a one-man grace commission like reagan had in the '80's. ted cruz, he is saying let's take el chapo's $14 billion and build the wall. >>yi right. any drug money confiscated from now until we finish paying for the wall all goes into paying for the wall. you have the drug dealers paying for the wall to stop the drug dealers. >> sean: does not constitute as mexico paying for the wall?l? >> if it is the mexican cartel. he didn't define the mexican government. more importantly, i really command ted cruz. this is a positive building block. he moves us in the right direction. it's really a very good step. >> sean: nobody in the media is willing to give this president credit. he had a great 100 days in so

many ways. we have an originalist on the supreme court. he's moving forward with energy independence. he put sanctions on iran, syria, tomahawk missiles in syria. getting along better than anyone dreamed of with the president of china. he met the saudi crown prince. he's done a lot in 100 days. >> it's almost like watching john f. kennedy. he suddenly shows up. he is an energizer bunny. he moves constantly. the idea he has brought the chinese -- as far as he has done, the biggest surprise to me is the chemistry between him and the president of china. i would have never dreamed of it. they talked for three hours. next day, they talked for a couple more hours. >> sean: i heard they talked for four or five hours. >> that could be one of the

great breakthrough moments. of course nobody on the left is going to give him any credit. >> sean: they sentiv back north korean coal. they put troops on the border. it's not a one-way street. this is a big deal. >> i think he has had a very good first 100 days. he's having a great time in pennsylvania on saturday night. >> sean: you've got to be proud of me. i've never been to a white house correspondents' dinner. not one. i don't like them and they don't like me. >> we were disgusted with the person they picked. and stupid for the white house correspondents'. why would you want to insult the president of the united states? >> sean: he is not going and neither is anyone in his cabinet. >> what do you think is going to get a bigger viewership?

the trump rally or white house correspondents' dinner? >> sean: 100% it will be the trump rally. what do you think the republicans need to do now to expedite -- you've cut them more slack than i have cut them. >> i know. you are a real professional radio. i am a professional -- >> sean: what am i on tv, chopped liver? >> i am a reasonably professional guy. i keep saying, by the way, what they ought to do is move forward on the infrastructure bill because psychologically, it brings democrats and republicans together which then makes it easier to get the democratic votes on the tax bill. those two they can pass in a bipartisan basis. they will have to carry the heavy lifting on obamacare and

they can get democrats on but you can't ask democrats to help you repeal obamacare. it is psychologically impossible.ar >> sean: you would say three years from now, donald trump -- where is the economy going to be? where is the country going to be? >> i am an optimist. i think will be in a reagan style boom. we will have a lot of people -- the work ethic will be back and reestablished. i think we will have dramatic reforms in government. on the monuments and antiquitieh act, what he did was historic. >> sean: if the president doesn't build the wall, i trust the president -- if he doesn'ten build that wall, but he campaigned so strongly on, would be the equivalent of read my lips, no new taxes? >> general kelly knows how to do it's with congress and frankly, let's say you are an ohio democrat. general kelly comes in and since your kids are dying from mexican heroin, i want your kids to be saved. do you want your kids to die?

do you think they will say no? >> sean: well said. coming up next, right here on "hannity." >> we will put people back to work.d.." >> sean: the president's tax reform agenda unveiled today. very important. what the administration is proposing for you, the american people, the economy and our mini monologue. we will get reaction from maria bartiromo, juan williams and also tmz's harvey levin calling out the bullying traditional media on being unfair towards the president. straight ahead. >> we are going to put people . straight ♪

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>> we are going to put people back to work. >> sean: that was president trump earlier today talking about the new plan to reform the convoluted taxx a system. it drastically cuts personal and corporate tax -- a huge, giant step forward in fulfilling yet another key campaign promise, to you, the american people. that is tonight's mini monologue. earlier today the trump administration laid out four concise goals for tax reform. one, grow the economy. two, simplify the tax code. three, provide tax relief for

families and four, lower the business tax rate from one of the highest in the industrialized world to one of the lowest. in order to achieve those goals, it will lower the number of tax brackets from seven to three. this will double the standard deduction for individuals and families meaning that married couples will not pay taxes on the first $24,000 that they earn. it also completely eliminate th double taxation, the minimum tax is gone. on business and investment income. all tax breaks with the exception of the mortgage and charitable gift it deduction will be eliminated. finally, america's oppressiveor 35% on corporations will be lowered to 15%. that'll bring a lot of money back to america and currently america's tax code is thousands of pages long. thousands. the new proposal introduced? one piece of paper. joining us now, our friend

juan williams and also maria bartiromo. i'm just guessing you like some of this. >> sure, i like some of it and i think we need tax reform. i think we need to simplify and i like the idea that you can do your own taxes. i don't think you or i or maria could do our own taxes. but i do think that when people say wait a minute, he really is going to do something for the middle class -- that is very attractive. as opposed to what we heard during the campaign which i think was more easily divided from my side of the street as a big giveaway to the rich, i think he is making steps here that aim at the middle class. >> sean: maria, we still have 95 million americans out of the labor force. we still have the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years. 50 million americans in poverty

and on food stamps. people are suffering. i want those companies building factories and manufacturing centers. >> i think you can get it and i think at the catalyst for that.t we have been watching business, the business sector in recession for the last decade. they've been unwilling to put new money to work in terms of hiring new people, new money to work in terms of investment. putting this corporate tax rateo at 15% is one of the most important parts of this plan t because it's going to unleash business that has been stagnant for the last decade. it's going to basically tellbu owned and operated businesses you can hire and invest in newt people again. the 15% rate -- these are small, owned and operated businesses. they are coming down from 39.6%. going from that to 15% is a big deal. >> here is a contrary point of view.

>> sean: we are done now. thank you so much for being with us. [laughter] >> the happy moment is gone because reality is -- >> sean: we were doing so good at this point. why? >> i couldn't help myself when i was listening to maria. there a lot of people who will say the republican party criticized obama for deficit spending and here we have a tax cut proposal that will explode the deficit and we don't even know by how much. we are going to say oh, yeah, go right ahead because it's a republican. and its donald trump. >> sean: didn't ronald reagan through his presidency drop 70% to 20%?? then we double the revenues in the eight years he was president? >> that's the point. that's exactly what reagan did. that is what trump is trying to do. pay for some of this through growth. we are on the doorstep of getting a gdp report out. economic growth is going to be under 1% for the first quarter. under 1%.

he's talking about getting to 3.5%-4% as a result of this unleashing. >> sean: we need it more than ever. >> the cost of something to sure.for this will go through a lot of different changes because of all of the stuff but by the end of the day, it may look different and may be a little be less expensive but you have to pay sometimes in terms of growth. that is what this plan does. >> i think you will have different permutations but there has to be some negotiations. with the dealmaker, donald trump, he knows he will negotiate a way but when you come down to things like oh, do away with the estate tax. you know what?n let's make it possible for people who are now running small businesses to suddenly claim oh, no, i am not a corporation ---- i'm going to file as a corporation because it gets me a 15% break. that's a huge cost to the federal budget.

what we see in terms of program cuts? the democrats are already saying there goes meals on wheels. there goes efforts to save -- >> they are taking away a lot of deductions that the highest earners typically enjoy. that's one of the issues --in >> sean: juan is worried he'sha going to get hurt. >> taking away without the estate tax? all of a sudden -- >> sean: it you already pay taxes on that. i've got to run. >> i think people like sean hannity, i don't think we should put money in his pocket. >> sean: i pay $0.50 of every dollar. i put you in my will. you just cut yourself off. by the way, ending burdens of regulation in energy independence is also a big part of this. good to see you guys.

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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity." tmz's harvey levin participated in the national association of broadcasters conference. harvey called out some membersci of the mainstream media saying their anti-trump media is bullying and some people are just pretending to be objective. watch this. >> what i find unbelievable is the bullying in traditional media. i think there is some traditional media outlets that are getting ruined by this administration and ruined by their own deeds. if you put yourself out as someone who supports trump, or like msnbc is against trump -- that's fine. but if you pretend you are objective but you are not and you are angry and trying to kill and bully, i think that is killing and i don't think they

know it yet but i think some of the trusted names inan news are not trusted anymore because ofd this. >> sean: joining us now, the man himself, harvey levin. do you still get paid to have that much fun on that show? i can't believe you get paid to do that. hang out with young people, joke around and take home a big check. >> when your alarm goes off at 3:00 in the morning, it's not fun to me. >> sean: you are still gathering material from all those hollywood people drinking that night. i don't even know what your politics are. i really don't. i like your show because it'sig very entertaining.g. but you are in hollywood. i'm sure you have a lot of liberal friends. what you said here was so deep and profound. i think you are right. some networks -- there is no pretense. you know who they are, what they are. they can see what they want. but those that are pretending, there is a lot of those known. their anger is so deep.

are they hurting themselves? >> i think they are. based on what i have done for a living as a reporter for cbs and nbc in los angeles as well as other places including tmz, i have really grown to believe very strongly that the public gets it. they are really sophisticated. when people kind of go back and forth and on the one hand they say we are this objective news source and then on the other hand they have an agenda, i think people get it. my thing is this. look, i am really shocked that there is this feeling generally that -- especially with people who don't like trump -- that you need to boycott him because if you don't boycott him, you are against us. i think when you look at people like kanye west, steve harvey, when they went to visit him, they got skewered as a result and the reason i think it's so ridiculous is if you are not in

the game and you disagree with some things that donald trump says -- i do -- i disagree with some things donald trump believes but when you disagree, you get in the game and if you can have access, gain access. this is a guy who clearly is capable of changing his mind when he is persuaded because he has done that in the last month. get in the game. for media outlets or others or people in hollywood to say, "no, sit on the sidelines and do not see him." "don't try." i think that's kind of ridiculous.nd >> sean: i was trying to say that to ted koppel. people know i am a conservative. there's no pretense here. i've been on the air at fox 21.5 years. radio, 30 years. most people can learn pretty quickly. let me go back. you took this hour one night. i interviewed trump a lot. you did an interview and i watched your interviewig closel. i learned things about

donald trump that i had not known. he gave you incredible access but he hadn't really given that to many other people. because he was just asking questions. tell me about your father, what does this picture mean to you, where did this come from? there was genuine curiosity and a genuine desire to learn. >> i will tell you, there are people who really criticized me for not because they said you didn't challenge him on various political views or social views and my feeling was, you don't always have to challenge somebody. the idea for me at least was i want to learn about this guy. i want to figure out how he became the person he became today because of his life experiences. that wasn't good enough for some people who felt like every time you go in, it needs to be a mission to kill or else you fail. that's a very narrow, myopic view of what people do when they interact with a president or a senator or a sports figure or celebrity or anybody like that.

it's not just one size fits all. for some of the media, it is one-size-fits-all. the idea is to challenge and go for the jugular. >> sean: harvey levin, tmz. he gets paid to have fun. it's unconscionable. everyone in america should have my cake. when we come back in, we your help. we have a very important question of the day and we have some voice mails you left for me on the "hannity" hotline. help. we have a very important question of the day and we have some voice mails you left for me on the "hannity" what made two guys build race car engines in their own shop? what made them believe that a two-ton behemoth could compete in a track race? or that they could take on the elite in world motor racing, and win? we may never truly understand what drives mercedes-amg. but here's to another 50 years of it. mercedes-amg. half a century of driving performance.

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facebook.com/seanhannity. hit me with your best shot. time to play your messages left for me on the "hannity hotline." callermac i think it is cool that you wear blue jeans. i love blue jeans. i used to wear them in all my jobs in new hampshire. [laughs] but then i got an office drawer. i think it's cool. and i think your tie is just right. i don't care what the lady said about it being too the right. >> i just want to say i think you are the man of the utmost integrity. and you have been instrumental and trying to keep the truth straight from the lies. i love your show and i watch you religiously. let it roll off your back. >> sean: everybody is being so nice. i wear jeans. in case you are interested. genes every night. i don't even want to wear this type. it's not fair. i have been here longer than eric bolling. i have almost been here the longest. anyway, have something to say?

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